Another Unknown Known
September 26, 2010Odd is history. What little of history I’ve seen, one truism for sure is that history does repeat itself — what comes around goes around. People who’ve had a strong hand in developing parts-and-parcel the…
Tag Archives: Politics
Another Ugly Leak
July 26, 2010Massive toxic leaks into the environment can be horrible, whether it be the Gulf of Mexico or a horrible, incompetent-run war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, WikiLeaks (my laptop won’t load the group’s website) released a…
Crying on the Toilet — ‘Conspiracy, conspiracy…’
October 31, 2009Nearly 50 years have passed since that fateful day in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, and now some new insights have surfaced into those few precious moments in the abrupt transition of presidential power —…
Crossing the Rubicon — Or How Not to Shit in Your Mess Kit
October 10, 2009US troops slugging through Afghanistan are sick of it and according to their chaplains: “The many soldiers who come to see us have a sense of futility and anger about being here. They are really…
Whoa!
October 9, 2009Friday morning shocker: President Obama has has won the Nobel Peace Prize — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.†And the Nobel Committee added: “He has created a new international…
Eight Years Later
October 7, 2009Today eight years ago, Oct. 7, 2001… “On my order, U.S. forces have begun strikes on terrorist camps of al Qaeda, and the military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” Bush said in a…
Extreme Saber-Rattling
October 6, 2009Iran getting nuked — one view of the repercussions… James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Long Emergency,’ describes a nightmare domino effect if Iran is bombed, and what the planet would then face. From his…
‘Bratty’ And Not At All Funny
October 5, 2009“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). The so-called Republican Party — the GOP — has descended into nothing…
Asshole Ari
August 24, 2007In a liar, lying beomes truth. One of the most dumb-shit items to come along in this horror is the formation of “Freedom Watch,” a right-wing nutwad of bozos trying to spend $15 million to…
Odom Told ‘Em
July 7, 2007In the continuous outpouring of flak and crap on, about, for and against the insane, horrific Iraq debacle there has been a voice, seemingly crying in the wilderness, a voice that should have been heard…